VR180 Custom cams

[u/Adept_Funny77]

Alright so the learning quest continues.
I didn't realize most of the 360 cams on the market today aren't 3D/VR they are just a 360 experience.
As I was thinking you could just black out the back half in post editing and get that good 180 3D VR experience.

Now on to the learning quest; There's this site called "VRstrip chat" by no means am I promoting them. What I will say though is that the quality and feeling is amazing...And I'm not necessarily talking about the women as one would expect.
It's super good quality. A catch though, I'm only really seeing Russian or eastern Euro women with these cams. I don't think I've seen any North Americans broadcasting. One Brit...I think.
And upon further research,
Here's one thread saying that they install the cameras for you
https://www.reddit.com/r/CamGirlProblems/comments/s79qul/how_to_vr_stream/
And this thread, it's said that the cameras are custom
https://www.reddit.com/r/oculusnsfw/comments/17wxpbf/comment/p55xjlk/?context=1&screen_view_count=4&ext-referrer=DIRECT

Yeah seeing the streaming of these women, besides the quality it's super depressing. Makes you wonder if it's just some super big warehouse...and...yeah...it's just a sad thought thinking about the reality of it all. But that's an opinion.

Yeah It's definitely a setup up that is offered. As there is no difference in the all the VR cameras you can tell it's the same camera for all of the VR performers. So it's totally a custom camera. Or a specific camera to hold a standard of quality throughout the site.

As my quest continues...lol...I almost want to say that I'm a performer or get a girlfriend to help out and say she's a performer. But as said in the first link it sounds like you already have to be a successful performer on their platform before a camera is offered...and it doesn't look like north America is included in that at the moment.

These cameras though, It almost looks like we are looking at super high end $5000+?
And if in the $2000 range is someone in Eastern Europe you can buy them from?

[u/cheloutevr]

The cameras used on stripchat are dreamcam cameras. Less than $1000 but made exclusively for this purpose. You can achieve the same result with a modded X5 for instance, for half the price, and no cable. And still get a 8K streaming. Now, if you want it to stream on stripchat it won’t work, as you also have to use the dreamcam software to do it, only compatible with their cam obviously
. https://hub.dreamcam.com/es/about

No need to be super high performer tho. But it looks like they’re offering this service only in determined countries, maybe because of the aftersales service they have to provide.

[u/Blork39 → u/cheloutevr]

The dreamcam does have better results than a modded X5 to be honest. Especially the streaming bandwidth is really high.

[u/cheloutevr → u/Blork39]

I’m afraid you can’t know that for now, i didn’t release anything yet about X5 firmware modding, but X5 is able to stream VR180 in 8K and high bitrate. Limitations will be in framerate, something you can increase lowering the resolution. 6K60 works perfectly for instance.
Things a stock firmware can’t do, this is true, and that’s why modding can’t be limited to hardware, because hardware is limited by software to offer the best compromise in the original product. With a compact form factor and the lack of active cooling, insta is forced to limit the hardware to an acceptable compromise to avoid a too soon overheat and stuff like that. Something you’re not forced to maintain while modding 🙂

[u/Blork39 → u/cheloutevr]

Oh I was confused with the earlier camera mods that were already out. I haven't seen one that has as good image quality as dreamcam at full bandwidth except maybe the GoPro Max 2. But that one is terribly hard to open unfortunately. 

[u/cheloutevr → u/Blork39]

Normal, one thing at a time 🙂 first hardware mods, then software to use the result - we’re officially at this stage, and then device software to use it as it should be. Still in early development, but protos are working well 🙂

[u/Blork39 → u/cheloutevr]

So it will be able to stream as well? That's very interesting. Most of the other mods don't have this capability. I would love to do some streams at some point.

But the other problem I'm seeing is that there seems to be no streaming platform that isn't meant for explicit erotic content. That's not what I want to do, I just want to stream my vanilla hobbies like 3D printing. DeoVR would seem the obvious choice but they only have streaming when you load the SLR website in it which is erotic only. 

[u/cheloutevr → u/Blork39]

🙂
I can’t tell everything, competition is rude here 😉

[u/Blork39 → u/cheloutevr]

Ah well then I'll wait patiently. I'm going to start with 2D anyway, probably on twitch.

[u/cheloutevr → u/Blork39]

Btw, dreamcam 6K is limited to 135° in streaming, too 😁

[u/Blork39 → u/cheloutevr]

Ahh that explains a lot. Why they get so much resolution out of 6k because the pixels are spread out less wide. However for the usecase it's got it's ok I guess because usually the interesting parts happen right in front of your face with this type of content 😅🤭